Shilo I can, indeed, NOT change that number; the attitude was uncalled for. I already said Layout Limit was at 0.
Alt. loading similarly seems to do nothing; which is the frustrating part - like getting low FPS in a game, going from Ultra to Lowest, and seeing no gains whatsoever. I do suspect something else could be going on, but have exactly zero ideas on where to dig deeper: game settings seem to do nothing performance-wise (or the gains are that miniscule), and any form or performance monitoring I use shows no indication that the computer/system is being pushed to the limit in any capacity.
P.s. Another [unrelated] thing I noticed: sometimes I see the clock advance twice when I move to another location. The most recent example: went from Church to Playground at 15:12, arrived at Church at 15:16 and right afterwards the clock jumped to 15:17. Is that normal? I did see a change in Inhibition for NPCs as I arrived at Church, so it could be somehow related to (or even directly caused by) the stat adjustment event(?), but...is it?